AN INCOMPLETE TIMELINE OF ONLINE EXHIBITIONS AND BIENNIALS

This timeline was made possible by the generous support of Cory Arcangel, Claude Closky, Michael Connor, Lauren Cornell, Raffael Dörig, Martin Germann, JODI, Miltos Manetas, Eva and Franco Mattes, Domenico Quaranta and Billy Rennekamp.

1991

THE THING

thing.net

THE THING is a center for new media practice and theory, social forums and online art projects founded by Wolfgang Staehle. In 1991, THE THING took the form of a dial-up bulletin board system that facilitated discussion and experimentation, primarily within the New York City arts communities. In 1995, THE THING launched its website bbs.thing.net.

1993

artnetweb

artnetweb.com

artnetweb is a network of people and projects investigating new media in the practice of art founded by Remo Campopiano and Robbin Murphy.

MOCA

moca.virtual.museum

Museum of Computer Art, founded by Don Archer and Bob Dodson, is an archive and exhibition space for digital artwork.

starDOTstar

Online exhibition organized by Lars Eijssen featuring works by Remco Vlaanderen, Diederik Martens and Lars Eijssen.

1994

Ada'web

adaweb.com

Ada'web is an online art site founded by John Borthwick and Benjamin Weill presenting works by artists such as Jenny Holzer, Julia Scher, David Bartels, Lawrence Weiner, Vivian Selbo, JODI, Doug Aitken and Dean Kuipers, among many others.

interversion.org

Series of online exhibitions, initiated by Simon Lamunière, featuring artists such as Claude Closky, Claude Gaçon, Hervé Graumann, Jochem Hendricks, Nathalie Novarina and Manfred Stumpf.

WebMuseum

ibiblio.org/wm

Online collection and exhibition of artwork by Nicolas Pioch

Lin Hsin Hsin Art Museum

lhham.com.sg

Online exhibition platform created by Lin Hsin Hsin to display digital art from Singapore.

Public Netbase

Cultural media initiative, open access Internet platform and advocate for the development of electronic art founded by Konrad Becker and Francisco de Sousa Webber.

1995

Artchive.com

Mark Harden’s website and archive of of fine art scans, art discourse and curated exhibitions consisting primarily of canonical paintings.

SITO.org

Founded and maintained by Ed Stastny, SITO is an art collective as well as an archive of digital artwork.

CERN - European Lab for Network Collision

irational.org/cern

Platform for exhibitions and networking projects.

Hyper X

altx.com/hyperx

Net Art exhibition space curated by Alt-X with contributions from guest curators including Mark Amerika, Abe Linkoln, Christiane Paul, and Jay Dillemut and Marisa Olson.

plexus.org

Digital art gallery and discussion zone co-founded by Stephen Pusey and Yu Yeon Kim.

Hell.com

Existing in many versions over time with limited access and tranparency, hell.com was a piece of net art as well a space for artists to exhibit work and collaborate. The domain name was registered by Kenneth Aronson.

Xcult.org

Xcult.org

Cultural forum on the Internet focussing mainly on Swiss art production and international participation founded by Reinhard Storz.

Dia Art Foundation Artists’ Web Projects

diaart.org/artist_web_projects

Platform for commissioned web projects includes works by Francis Alÿs, David Claerbout, Diller + Scofidio, Molissa Fenley, Susan Hiller, Glenn Ligon, Komar & Melamid, Feng Mengbo, Allen Ruppersberg, Shimabuku, Gary Simmons, Stephen Vitiello, Ezra Johnson, Rosa Barba, and Barbara Bloom.

1996

CyberAtlas

Project of the Guggenheim web site acting as a compendium of maps of cyberspace that was awarded Best Online Exhibition Site at the 1998 Museums and the Web conference.

Turbulence.org

The department of New Radio and Performing Arts, Inc. dedicated to commissioning and exhibiting Internet art.

1997

Online exhibition space of documenta X

documenta12.de/archiv/dx/english/frm_home.htm

Designed and curated by Simon Lamunière.

Gallery 9

gallery9.walkerart.org

Gallery 9 is the Walker Art Center's online exhibition space. Between 1997 and 2003, under the direction of Steve Dietz, Gallery 9 presented the work of more than 100 artists.

Digital Studies - Being in Cyberspace

altx.com/ds

Online exhibition of net.art and net.theory curated by Mark Amerika and Alex Galloway for ALT-X Online Network (altx.com). Artists and writers included: Richard Allalouf, Mark Amerika, Roy Ascott, Torsten Zenas Burns, Claire Cann, Vuk Cosic, Ricardo Dominguez, Alex Galloway, Dr. Hugo, Intima, Shelley Jackson, Tina LaPorta, Lev Manovich, Juliet Ann Martin, Jennifer Bozick McCoy, Kevin McCoy, Knut Mork, Poem by Nari, Melinda Rackham, Erwin Redl, Nino Rodriguez, La Societe Anonyme, Jeff Zilm.

PORT

Port is an exhibition of networked digital worlds on the Internet organized by Remo Campopiano and Robbin Murphy in collaboration with MIT List Visual Arts Center.

        

1998

Rhizome.org Splash Pages

archive.rhizome.org:8080/exhibition/splashback

Used by Rhizome.org to display artwork with greater immediacy, a splash page of net art was the first content presented to users visiting the site between 1998 and 2002. They were collected as an archive and subsequent online exhibition by Brian Droitcour in 2010.

NSK

undo.net/nsk

Web exhibition curated by Deborah Ligorio with contributions by Andreas Angelidakis, Casino Royale, Jonny Benson, Lorenzo Bini, Mark Borthwick, Dimix and Markos Novak.

Virtual Worlds

A floating studio in Chelsea. Concept by Miltos Manetas and architecture by Andreas Angelidakis.

2000

JavaMuseum

javamuseum.org

Founded in 2000 by Agricola de Cologne as a virtual museum focussing on net based art.

Netart

centrepompidou.fr/netart

online exhibition commissioned by the Centre Pompidou, in collaboration with Alison Gingeras. Realisation by Jean-Noël Lafargue. Works by Cercle Ramo Nahs, Vuk Cosic, Rainer Ganahl, JoDi, Olive Martin & Patrick Bernier, Mark Napier and ®™ark.

FILE Archive

Online archive of net art in association with FILE Electronic Language International Festival in Sao Paulo Brazil founded by artists Ricardo Barreto and Paula Perissinotto.

Alt.interface

archive.rhizome.org:8080/exhibition/interface

Alt.interface is a series of commissioned interfaces incorporating Rhizome.org’s archives of text and art. Artists include Alex Galloway, Martin Wattenberg, Mark Tribe, Christopher Fahey, John Klima and Lisa Jevbratt.

2000 Whitney Biennial

The first Whitney Biennial to include net art featuring the artists Mark Amerika, Lew Baldwin, Ben Benjamin, Fakeshop, Ken Goldberg, RTMark, John F. Simon, Jr., Darcey Steinke and Annette Weintraub.

2001

iGalerie

mudam.lu/iGalerie/indexframes.htm

Online exhibition space of MUDAM (Musée d'Art Modern du Luxembourg) curated by Claude Closky, Simon Lamunière, Jean-Charles Massera and Benjamin Weil. Designed by Claude Closky.

Kingdom Of Piracy

residence.aec.at/kop/KOP/html/index.html

Kingdom of Piracy is an online exhibition space and workspace launched in 2001 in Taiwan and presented at Ars Electronica 2002 with 14 commissioned artworks and 3 writing projects. Curated by Shu Lea Cheang, Armin Medosch and Yukiko Shikata.

Korea Web Art Festival

koreawebart.org

Online exhibition organized by the Digital Academy of Art and Culture.

2002

Whitney Artport

whitney.org/Exhibitions/Artport

Whitney Museum’s portal to Internet art and an online gallery space for commissions of net art and new media art.

Whitney Biennial 2002 (Net Art Selection)

The Whitney Museum included net art in their Biennial for the second and last time. Not to be confused with Milto Maneta’s unofficial whitneybiennial.com the same year. Artists included James Buckhouse, Mary Flanagan, Benjamin Fry, Lisa Jevbratt, Yael Kanarek, John Klima, Margot Lovejoy, Mark Napier, Robert Nideffer, Josh On & Futurefarmers

Whitney Biennial 2002

whitneybiennial.com

Online biennial organized by Miltos Manetas.

mix-m.org

MIX-m stands for MIXed-museum. It is a contemporary art museum that exists both in physical and digital spaces, in localized and networked environments, organized by fabric | ch and Simon Lamunière.

Neen World

Neen World is an open-ended architectural experiment which started as an ActiveWorlds place for members of the Neen art movement to meet, walk and talk online: a chat-room. Architecture by Andreas Angelidakis. Commissioned by Miltos Manetas and the electronicOrphanage in the occasion of the Afterneen exhibition in CASCO.

2003

Web Biennial

International bi-annual contemporary art exhibition located exclusively on the

World Wide Web, founded by Genco Gulan.

2004

ya heard

Online exhibition of sound based work from Rhizome.org’s Art Base by Mendi and Keith Obadike. Artists include: Michiel Knaven, Conor O'Boyle, Paul Miller, Erik Bünger, William Duckworth, Michaël SellamMark, Erik Belgum, Nicolas Clauss

no/copy/right

no-org.net/no/copy/right/

An online exhibition organized by no-org.net.

2005

Low Level All Stars

archive.rhizome.org:8080/exhibition/Low_Level_All_Stars

Collection of digital start screen “graffitti” created by Commodore 64 crackers who removed copyright restraints from various software and games. Works extracted by Beige and presented by Beige and Radical Software Group.

Raiders of the Lost ArtBase

rhizome.org/exhibitions/raiders-of-the-lost-artbase

Curated by Michael Connor from Rhizome.org’s ArtBase.

Net Art's Cyborg[feminist]s, Punks, and Manifestos

archive.rhizome.org:8080/exhibition/cyborg/index.html

Exhibition on the politics of [internet] appearances, curated by Marina Grzinic for Rhizome ArtBase.

2006

Time Shares

archive.rhizome.org/exhibition/timeshares/

A series of online exhibitions organized by Rhizome.org and co-presented by The New Museum of Contemporary Art.

Neterotopia

neterotopia.net

Neterotopia was an event that took place from 16th to 31st March 2006 in various spaces on the Net and in 3 physical locations, the Palais de Tokyo (Paris), Careof (Milan) and NICC (Antwerp).

The Copy and Paste Show

hanne-mugaas.com/the-copy-and-paste-show

Part of Time Shares, a series of online exhibitions co-presented by Rhizome and the New Museum of Contemporary Art, curated by Hanne Mugaas.

Included artists: Seth Price, Ida Ekblad & Anders Norby, 808

Professional Surfer

archive.rhizome.org/exhibition/timeshares/touring.php

Part of Time Shares, a series of online exhibitions co-presented by Rhizome and the New Museum of Contemporary Art, curated by Lauren Cornell. Artists included John Michael Boling, Olia Lialina, Joel Holmberg, Nasty Nets, Travis Hallenbeck and Supercentral.

2007

Touring Show

archive.rhizome.org/exhibition/timeshares/professionalsurfer.php

Part of Time Shares, a series of online exhibitions co-presented by Rhizome and the New Museum of Contemporary Art, curated by Marisa Olson. Artists included Kanarinka, Temporary Travel Office, C5, Trevor Paglen, Finishing School, Raqs Media Collective with Joy Chatterjee, Ricardo Miranda Zuniga

Temporäre Kunsthalle Berlin Second Life

A Second Life precursor of the temporary Kunsthalle Berlin featuring Candice Breitz and Franz Ackermann.

20 x 20

http://www.gooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooogle.com/2020.html

Curated by John Michael Boling for a lecture on net art. Includes work by Billy Rennekamp, Peter Baldes, Aleksandra Domanovic, Ilia Ovechkin and Will Simpson, Guthrie Lonergan, Damon Zucconi, Rafael Rozendaal, Cory Arcangel, Oliver Laric, Guthrie Lonergan, Charles Broskoski, Mark Callahan, Chris Collins, James Whipple, Michael Bell Smith and company, Guthrie Lonergan, Dragan Espenscheid, Joel Holmberg and John Michael Boling

2008

Montage: Unmonumental Online

archive.rhizome.org/exhibition/montage/projects.php

Online portion of Unmonumental exhibition at The New Museum of Contemporary Art, curated by Lauren Cornell and Marisa Olson. Artists included Michael Bell-Smith, William Boling, John Michael Boling, Charles Broskoski, Jessica Ciocci, Petra Cortright, Chris Coy, Cao Fei, Kenneth Tin-Kin Hung, Nina Katchadourian, Oliver Laric, Olia Lialina, Guthrie Lonergan, Paul Slocum

NETescopio

netescopio.meiac.es

On-line archive designed to preserve works of art generated for the web developed by the Museo Extremeño e Iberoamericano de Arte Contemporáneo

Manetas Desert in Second Life

Second Life exhibition organized by Miltos Manetas.

Club Internet

clubinternet.org

Online exhibition space initiated by Harm van den Dorpel

nobelprize.no

Online exhibition curated by Alejandra Salinas and Aeron Bergman.

The New Easy

theneweasy.com

Online exhibition curated by Lars Eijssen.

2009

Padiglione Internet

padiglioneinternet.com

An online exhibition curated by Miltos Manetas for the 2009 Internet Pavilion of the Venice Biennial featuring works by Petra Cortright, Aleksandra Domanovic, Harm van den Dorpel, Sinam Erkas, Elna Frederick, Martijn Hendriks, Parker Ito, Oliver Laric, Guthrie Lonergan and Pascual Sisto.

My biennial is better than yours

mybiennialisbetterthanyours.com

Mybiennialisbetterthanyours an online exhibition curated by Tolga Taluy for the X Biennale de Lyon.

or-bits.com

or-bits.com is a web-based curatorial platform devoted to supporting practices and dialogues maround artistic production, display and distribution online.

Binarykatwalk

binarykatwalk.net

Binarykatwalk is an online exhibition space for experimental digital work.

JstChillin

jstchillin.org

Online exhibition series founded by Parker Ito and Caitlin Denny.

2010

NOISEnotNOISE

front.nfshost.com/noisenotnoise

Online exhibition presented by the Western Front featuring JODI, Guthrie Lonergan, Cory Arcangel, Lee Walton and Aleksandra Domanovic.

Chrystal Gallery

chrystalgallery.info

A computer rendered exhibition space curated and rendered by Timur Si-Qin with works by Kari Altmann, Charles Broskoski, Lindsay Lawson, Billy Rennekamp, Maxwell Simmer, and Harm Van Den Dorpel.

Xweb

xpace.info/xweb

Online exhibition space for Toronto Gallery Xpace.

Sculpture Storage

loshadka.org/billy/archive.php?Number=98

Digital Exhibition of 3D artworks curated by Billy Rennekamp, hosted by La MAMA in New York and organized by The Cave. Artist include Aids-3D, Billy Rennekamp, Clemens Jahn, Guthrie Lonergan, Hunter Skye Chamberlain, Max Pitegoff and Timur Si-qin.

An Immaterial Survey of Our Peers

Tumblr.com exhibition of photos of artworks that were digitally manipulated by curator Brad Troemel so as to appear physical in an SAIC exhibition space. List of Artists: Aaron Graham, Abigail McGuane, AIDS-3D, Andreas Banderas, Arielle Gavin, Anna Mack, Ben Schumacher, Brad Tinmouth, Brenna Murphy, Brian Khek, Kevin Caldwell, Chris Collins, Chris Coy, Daniel Everett, David Horvitz, Derek Frech, Elina Minn, Esteban Schimpf, Hanna Terese Nilsson, Hermonie Only, Iain Ball, Ilia Ovechkin, Israel Lund, Ivan Gaytan, Jamie Felton, Jason Lazarus, Jeff O’Brien, Jennilee Marigomen, Jon Rafman, Jordan Rhoat, Kari Altmann, Katy Heinlein, Lili Huston-Herterich, Manny Mireles, Martijn Hendriks, Martin Kohout, Maryanne Casasanta, Matthew Green, Micah Schippa, Mitch Thar, Natalie Rognsoy, Nick DeMarco, Parker Ito, Rachael Milton, Ryan Barone, Samara Golden, Timur Si-Qin, Travess Smalley and Zach Shipko.

Youtube Play

Exhibition of videos from Youtube.com organized and hosted by The Guggenheim Museum in New York. Works were submitted by youtube users and chosen by a panel of judges including Laurie Anderson, Animal Collective, featuring Deakin (Josh Dibb), Geologist (Brian Weitz), and Panda Bear (Noah Lennox), Darren Aronofsky, Douglas Gordon, Ryan McGinley, Marilyn Minter, Takashi Murakami, Shirin Neshat, Stefan Sagmeister, Apichatpong Weerasethakul and Nancy Spector.

IN.F3XXX10N.US

Online art exhibition, organized and initiated by jonCates & Jake Elliott.

stuffinablank

stuffinablank.com

Internet based platform conceived to hold online exhibitions of contemporary art.

STATE

thestate.tumblr.com

STATE is an online exhibition platform that features new projects and statements by artists who use the internet as a primary element in their work.

lafiac.com

Online exhibition curated and organized by Margherita Balzerani & Julien Levesque.

thegalleryspace.info

Tumblr.com gallery exhibiting documentation of physical work as well as digital works. Curated by Louis Doulas.

2011

bubblebyte

bubblebyte.org

Online exhibition space initiated by Rhys Coren and Attilia Fattori Franchini.

A CLOCK THAT RUNS ON MUD

neromagazine.it/a_clock_that_runs_on_mud/-

Online exhibition curated by Jennifer Teets with works by Michael Portnoy, Morten Norbye Halvorsen, Darius Mikšys, Aslı Çavuşoğlu/Burak Arıkan, Mateusz Sadowski, Vava Dudu, Tania Pérez Córdova, Valentinas Klimašauskas, Fatoş Üstek/Per Hüttner, FRANCE FICTION, Francesco Pedraglio, PERENNIAL, Mark Aerial Waller and Carson Salter.

Parallelograms

Parrallelograms.info

online publication and multi-artist project exploring the relationship between images and interpretation curated and published by Leah Beeferman and Matthew Harvey.

KlausGallery.net

Online exhibition project in connection with the Klaus Von Nichtssagend Gallery in New York curated by Duncan Malashock. Artists include Nicolas Sassoon, Laura Brothers, Jeremiah Johnson, Pascual Sisto, Krist Wood, Angelo Plessas, Guthrie Lonergan, Brenna Murphy, Duncan Malashock, Sara Ludy, Kate Steciw, Arend deGruyter-Helfer, Constant Dullaart, BFFA3AE, Billy Rennekamp, Harm van den Dorpe and Michelle Ceja.

Ships Passing in the Night

shipspassinginthenight.info

Online exhibition organized and designed by Mylinh Trieu Nguyen for CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Art San Francisco.

ANI GIF

ani-gif.com

ANI GIF is an online gallery for artists to explore the creative possibilities of the Animated GIF file format curated by Daniel Rehn and Sarah Caluag.

SPAMM (Super Art Modern Museum)

spamm.fr

Online exhibition series created and curated by Michaël Borras aka Systaime and Thomas Cheneseau.

Art Micro-Patronage

artmicropatronage.org

Art Micro-Patronage is an experimental online exhibition space featuring monthly curated shows of digital, new media, and intermedia work founded by Eleanor Hanson Wise and Oliver Wise.

2012

Dallas Biennial

dallasbiennial.org

Online biennial including participants such as Adrian Piper, Artur Barrio, Stephen Lapthisophon, Asger Carlsen, The estate of Nam Jun Paik and Robert Smithson, Ludwig Schwarz, Mishka Henner, Petra Cortright, Martha Rosler, Brad Tucker, Guillaume Leblon, Michael Vorfeld, Sharon Ya'ari, among others.

A4

exhibition-on-a4.com

An exhibition on a piece of website organized by Hösl & Mihaljevic and Leon Hösl.

The Platform

lunch-bytes.com/platform

The Platform is an online space where artists whose work deals with digital phenomena can upload and curate materials.

Unlimited GTI

unlimitedgti.com

Online exhibition organized by Yves Scherer featuring Lindsay Lawson, Martin Kohout, Alex Turgeon, Berry Patten, Stephan Backes, Zarah Landes and pyramidd.biz.

Accidental Purpose

accidentalpurpose.net

Online exhibition curated by Candice Jacobs & Fay Nicolson.

Sleeping Upright

sleepingupright.com

Online exhibition featuring works by Stéphane Devidal, Benedict Drew, Ed Fornieles, Candice Jacobs and Jesse Wine.

International New Media Gallery

inmg.org.uk/contact

Online exhibition space for moving image artworks founded by UCL History of Art postgraduates Tom Snow, Isabella Smith, Charley Lintern and Joy Stacey.

American Medium

americanmedium.net

Multimedia exhibition platform for contemporary art.

Gallery Onine

GalleryOnl.in/e

Gallery Online is a gallery for digital art located on Facebook, launched by Ronen Shai and Thomas Cheneseau.

PrintFiction.net

A virtual stage and space for exhibitions and further activities by Michael Alfred.

Fach & Asendorf Gallery

fa-g.org

Online Gallery founded and curated by Architect and artist Ole Fach and the media artist Kim Asendorf.

Click | Gallery

clickgallery.us

Click | Gallery offers internet artists the opportunity to temporarily commandeer its server space to create new work.

Domain Gallery

domain-gallery.net

Domain Gallery is an online gallery focused on Digital and Internet Based Works curated by Manuel Fernández.

First Look: New Art Online

http://www.newmuseum.org/exhibitions/online

First Look: New Art Online is a monthly series of innovative online projects and new commissions curated by Lauren Cornell for the New Museum. The series launched in 2012 with a work by Taryn Simon and Aaron Swartz.

2013

Width:700px; Gallery

700gallery.tumblr.com

Tumblr gallery of images 700px wide by Levi Bruce.

Decenter

decenterarmory.com/network

An online exhibition on the centenary of the 1913 Armory Exhibition.

Desktop Residency

desktopresidency.com

Online exhibition curated by John Henry Newton and Barnie Page featuring artists such as Clémence de la Tour du Pin, Simon Boase, Brenna Murphy, Joseph Buckley and Ryan Gander.

BiennaleOnline

artplus.com

Online biennial exhibition of contemporary art initiated by David Dehaeck & Nathalie Haveman.

thewrong.org

A digital art biennale with 30 online pavilions lead by 30 curators/artists/organisations featuring more than 300 artists to be featured online.